CTAHR Presents Winners of 2003 Student Research Symposium

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa‘s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) held its 15th CTAHR Student Research Symposium with more than 40 students presenting details of their research projects through posters and oral presentations. Nearly $6,000 in awards were presented for oral presentations or posters judged to be outstanding.

All presenters were honored at CTAHR‘s Annual Awards Banquet with certificates of participation. In addition, awards and endowed and annual scholarships were presented to:

CTAHR also celebrated the establishment of three new endowments — The Andrew G. and Merle Hashimoto Endowed Scholarship Fund, The Fred Fujimoto Endowed Scholarship Fund, and the Hawaiʻi Florists and Shippers Association Endowed Scholarship Fund.

Initiated by CTAHR faculty in an effort to create more opportunities to provide students with exposure to the rigors of conference presentations, the symposium this year featured undergraduate and graduate students from CTAHR‘s Departments of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, and Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences. Student presenters from department‘s other than CTAHR also participated, including UH Mānoa‘s Pacific Biomedical Research Center and UH Hilo‘s College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management.